Cellular Heterogeneity of Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte Grafts is Mechanistically Linked to Treatable Arrhythmias
Selvakumar, D.; Clayton, Z. E.; Prowse, A.; Dingwall, S.; George, J.; Shah, H.; Chen, S.; Hume, R. D.; Tjahjadi, L.; Igoor, S.; Skelton, R. J. P.; Hing, A.; Paterson, H.; Foster, S. L.; Pearson, L.; Wilkie, E.; Jeyaprakash, P.; Wu, Z.; McArthur, J. R.; Barry, T.; Lu, J.; Tran, V.; Bennett, R.; Kotake, Y.; Campbell, T.; Turnbull, S.; Nguyen, Q.; Ni, G.; Grieve, S. M.; Palpant, N. J.; Pathan, F.; Kizana, E.; Kumar, S.; Gray, P. P.; Chong, J. J. H.
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BackgroundExciting pre-clinical data have confirmed that human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (PSC-CMs) can remuscularise the injured or diseased heart, with several clinical trials now in planning or recruitment stages worldwide. However, ventricular arrhythmias are a predictable complication following engraftment of intramyocardially injected PSC-CMs. Therefore, there is an urgent unmet need to gain mechanistic insights and treatment strategies to control or prevent these engraftment arrhythmias (EAs). MethodsWe used a porcine model of myocardial infarction and PSC-CM transplantation to investigate efficacy of pharmacologic and catheter based anti-arrhythmic strategies in mitigating EAs. Furthermore, cell doses were robustly phenotyped using single cell ribonucleic acid sequencing and high parameter flow cytometry to identify cellular characteristics predictive of arrhythmogenesis. ResultsCombination therapy with amiodarone and ivabradine significantly reduced EA rate and burden following PSC-CM transplantation. Catheter ablation was also a feasible and effective treatment strategy which could be considered in the case of pharmacologically refractory arrhythmias. In addition, we show that EAs are mechanistically linked to cellular heterogeneity in the input PSC-CM and resultant graft. Specifically, we identify atrial and pacemaker-like cardiomyocytes as culprit arrhythmogenic subpopulations. We further describe two unique surface marker signatures, SIRPA+/CD90-/CD200+ and SIRPA+/CD90-/CD200-, which identify arrhythmogenic and non-arrhythmogenic cardiomyocytes respectively. ConclusionOur data deepens mechanistic understanding of EAs and suggests that modifications to current PSC-CM production and/or selection protocols could ameliorate this problem. We further show that current clinical pharmacologic and interventional anti-arrhythmic strategies can control and potentially abolish these arrhythmias, an important safety consideration given several impending clinical trials.
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